June 2012 Carb Heat June 2012 Hot Air and Flying Rumours EAA 245 NEWSLETTER Vol 42 No. 6 Published by EAA Chapter 245 (Ottawa) P.O. Box 24149 Hazeldean R.P.O., Kanata, Ontario, Canada, K2M 2C3 Contents Next Meeting: Saturday June 16 at 10:00 AM EAA 245 Hangar Presidentʼs Message"Page 2 Carp Airport Editor!s Comments"Page 3 Presentation: Humour"Pages 3 My Plane"Page 4 New 406MHz ELT from Pointer Exhaust 30/20 years ago"Page 8 Avionics - Bruce McPherson Westport Fly-In"Page 9 Fly-Out Possibilities"Page 11 For Sale"Page 13 Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 245 Ottawa. We are a group of Amateur Aircraft Builders, Owners, and Enthusiasts with a hangar, lounge and workshop facility located@the Carp Airport, situated just west of Ottawa. President Cary Beazley 613-226-4028 [email protected] Vice President: Phillip Johnson 613-253-2229 [email protected] Treasurer: Curtis Hillier 613-831-6352 [email protected] Secretary: Peter Zutrauen 613-831-0348 [email protected] Operations: Ken Potter 613-259-3242 [email protected] Membership: John Montgomery 613-599-1240 [email protected] Webmaster: Russell Holmes 613-226-8273 [email protected] Newsletter Editor: Yvon Mayo 613-830-1935 [email protected] or [email protected] Technical Information Officer: Nathan Aligizakis 613-730-1644 [email protected] Young Eagles Coordinator: Alfio Ferrara 613-836-8285 [email protected] Chapter Historian: Wayne Griese 613-256-5439 [email protected] Carp Airport Liaison: Martin Poettcker 613-832-1210 [email protected] Hangar Group Liaison: Bill Reed 613-831-8762 [email protected] EAA 245 Website: http://eaa245.org/ and http://www.245.eaachapter.org/ Page 1 of 14 June 2012 President’s Message To volunteer or add a young eagle to the list contact Alfio at 613 Mark’s Glastar Sportsman2+2 836-8285: made some rapid progress the last [email protected] few weeks with some assistance. [email protected] A huge amount of things got checked off the to-do list. We hope Canada Aviation and Space to hear her making noise shortly… Museum – July 1st Canada Day Alfio and Shirley’s girl is almost back together with a spiffy new IFR If anyone is interested in flying in panel. on behalf of EAA245, please contact one of the exec. Andy’s Long-Ez was getting some Thermals TLC recently – we hope to see We are also looking for volunteers The food tour has begun in earnest. them flying more soon. for a rib-building booth for the Installation of an Dynon EFIS kids. and Autopilot system in an EAA 245 Club Stuff Pontiac Airpark News RV6A or “an IFR panel in a Sunday morning get together http://www.pontiacairpark.com/ continue @ 10am at the Carp EAA week” – Dwayne Price, News.htm Charlie Martel, Henri Monnin, hangar. See you there. Greg Holbrook Makerplane - Open Source As per previous years, our Summer I want to thank the East end gang Aircraft Project meetings will be held at our for another great presentation on The small, distributed team is Chapter Hangar in Carp. their heroic 8 day panel installation making progress and plan to have a in Dwayne’s RV-6A. model and booth at Airventure in See you at the meeting! Oshkosh. I particularly enjoyed the comments and humorous videos of John Nicol is spearheading the Cary the trials and tribulations of the project and is located right here in equipment rack test fits – “its the Ottawa valley. I have asked going, going, … it won’t fit, !#?”. John for a short presentation at our July 14 meeting. I’m always impressed at the speed and craftsmanship of the very Take a look or volunteer! active East end gang. http://makerplane.org Young Eagles Fly Day June Around the Patch 16th 12:30 PM (Rain date is We have a new member and June 23rd) another Zenith on the flight line – The first annual Young Eagles fly it’s good to see the tie down rows day will take place right after the filling up again. June meeting. The Nanchang & crew dropped in A few pilots have had to withdraw, for a visit recently, she was getting so Alfio is still looking for all dolled up and polished and additional volunteer pilots and for shiny for the upcoming touring ground assistance. season. Where’s Colin? Page 2 of 14 June 2012 Meeting Schedule 16 June 2012, New 406MHz ELT from Pointer Avionics - Bruce McPherson 10:00 AM, EAA LOCATION CHANGE to CARP for our summer meetings Chapter Hangar, Carp 14 July2012 Makerplane.org Open Source Aviation Project - John Nicol Carp EAA chapter Preparing for an Oshkosh Arrival Oops - Charlie Martel, Cary Beazley 18 Aug 2012 SplOshkosh review Carp EAA chapter Editor’s Comments Our regular contributors, did their Jeff Whaley is continuing for a sixth We need more stories and usual this month. Cary presents his issue his series on the build of “My information to pass on to our readers. President’s Message and Wayne Plane”. If you go to fly-ins, take notes, Griese brings us a historical look at pictures and write a short article so Carb Heat. Charles Martel is Ken Potter wrote a short article about ohers find out what they missed. overloaded for now so his usual the Westport Fly-In.. column on the flying adventures of the pilots of the East End will have to Flying season is upon us and there wait for better times. are a lot of airports to go to for a fly- in breakfast. Yvon Mayo Bartoon Barnstormers issue 223 Page 3 of 14 June 2012 My Plane - Pre-Flight Inspection (This is part of a series; see previous articles in the January, February, March, April, and May Editions) Inspections Everything that happens after the pre-cover inspection is essentially working toward the final, Pre-Flight Inspection. In total, I had three pre-cover inspections at various stages of the project: Fuselage, Wings and Control Surfaces. As a builder, if you can count to three you can pass any inspection. Bolt a part of any quality to your homebuilt (Ford V6?) if you like (it’s your butt) as long as at least 1 thread and no more than 3 protrude past the nut, in combination with 3 or less washers. accessible. For my wings this the cables. To complete the flaps So learn how to measure bolts and wasn’t too complicated but and ailerons with top and bottom get the thread count right. included such things as running aluminum skins actually meant wires to the wing tips for putting everything together with After passing a pre-cover navigation lights, design and install clecoes then disassembly for inspection make sure that my landing/taxi light modification, inspection, clecoe it all back everything to go inside is actually fabricating access panels for all together then replace a few clecoes there and any service areas are control cable pulleys and installing at a time with Avex pop-rivets. It is a very satisfying feeling to see something go together for the last time. The Fuselage Cables and Wires The fuselage is a monster to complete prior to covering. There is so much to consider, for one the instrument panel and wiring. Instrument panels are notorious for being difficult to access after the fact. Removing or running just one new wire can take hours of removing interior panels, seats and floorboards before routing is even possible, all for a job that takes 5 minutes on a bare airframe. It too has to have Page 4 of 14 June 2012 the tips it became obvious that there were two shades of blue. I contacted the supplier and they shipped me two new cans and again not the same colour as the fuselage. I phoned Stitts directly and discussed the problem; they explained that the PT-177 colour chip I selected was now obsolete but if I sent them a sample they would match the colour and supply me with two new cans – they were true to their word. most if not all cables routed, rivets, I drilled the rudder, especially in my case the trim horizontal stabilizers and elevator Without access to wing or fuselage system continuous control cable for ribs to match. rotisseries the wings were hung the horizontal stabilizers; I spent from the hangar rafters. Painting more time making that cable and Painting vertically hung components is not an ideal situation; it requires rapid planning its routing than on any I chose the Stitts Poly-Fiber system movement of the spray gun and other system in the airplane as its with Glacier White and Ultra- extra passes with a light spray. The access is limited at best. Marine Blue as I like F4U-Corsairs. fuselage suspended by rope-block When it came time to paint, the with a modified engine mount Satisfaction fuselage was done first with the top bolted to the front combined with a Covering the airplane is the most half white, bottom half blue; the saw horse at the tail, allowed 3- satisfying job of all. It was a lot of fresh paint looked great. My wings position rotation and a more fun and I had lots of help from would be basic white with blue tips relaxed painting environment. friends and family. My dad guided for contrast; as I finished painting Working in a hangar without us through the big jobs of wing and fuselage covering. Unfortunately during the last tightening of the top fuselage skin the stringer-attach clips collapsed, literally folding over; what looked great 2 seconds before was now a mess.